4 April 2017 Today, I was reading The Iron Cross, A History 1813-1945 by Gordon Williamson. As happens most of the time, I began a 'Wiki-chain': I looked up 'Iron Cross' on Wikipedia which led me to the Wikipedia page for Gordon Williamson . I was shocked to see some remarks by an "S. P. Mackenzie" which floored me. I almost threw my book across the room! A revisionist?? Gordon Williamson is a revisionist?!?! How can someone who wrote, "The SS: Hitler's Instrument of Terror" be a revisionist??? From Wikipedia : Williamson has authored over 20 books on the Waffen-SS and the Wehrmacht . [4] The military historian S.P. MacKenzie describes Williamson as a writer who attempts "to restore the tarnished reputation [of the Waffen-SS] and reiterate its superb fighting qualities" by relying on veterans' narratives, with "predictably positive results". [5] MacKenzie includes Williamson's books among the wor...
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